Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-31
THE NEwLAROR movEmRNr.

day by Robert PYRe of Hartford,
 State organizer of the United Labor
 Organization In Connecticut.
 There was 8 meeting in Central Labor Hall yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Land and Labor club for the purpose of perfecting the organization of @ United Labor party in this city.
 The principal point of interest about the meeting, as advertised, was all address by Robert Pyne, of Hartford. on the fsSense and Nonsense of the Labor Movement.n Mir. Pyne is the State organizer for Connecticut of the United Labor party.
 dA* o'clock the meeting was called to order by Acting Chairman Chappelle. There were but few present at that hour, but this was due to the fact that it has generally been the case to call the meeting about half an hour after the regular time. The regular business of the club was first attended to.
 It was moved that 8 committee of five be appointed to draft the bylaws of the new org anization, but this was afterward with drawn when MT. Pyne said that he and sev- eral others who are interested in the move ment had spent 8 good deal of time in pre- pairing constitution and bylaws for the party of this State. He explained several points. The new organization is divid-
  posed of those who are regular voters, the second those who are about to become such. In the second class are also the women. MT. Pyne explained that the women could do much toward the good of the movement in their own peculiar way.
 MT. Pyne explained about each branch of the order having connected with it a library for distribution of tracts and papers publish ed in the interest of it.
 E. The members began to think, it was evil dent, that MT. Pyne was not present, for they began somewhat of an animated discus sion among themselves. The chairman called their attention two or three times to the fact that discussion did not come under the head of general business and that Mir. Pyne was there to address them. These hints were disregarded until one gentleman arose and made motion, just in the midst of the discussion, that MT. Pyne be given the floor. It was then nearly five o'clock. The motion was carried.
 Mir. Pyne is of medium height, has a brown silken and wavy mustaehe, his cheeks are ruddy and the picture of health. He is an
 interesting talker.
 q presume that all who are present are not in need of any instruction whatever about this movement. I have had every experience to knew that the majority o: come to such meetings as these. You could get hall filled to see Henry George or to see John L. Sullivan or Blind Tom. Those people go for curiosity. That Is ali. l did not expect many here to-day. I do not SUD- pose that any would drop in to these meet. ings to learn something of this new party. There is an opportunity for each to educate all.
 s'Those who think control the world Those who think control those who do moi think That accounts for the condition o1 the world It is thought that we want here. That is why we want these labor organiza- tions to work in thought. You must devise some way to get those to attend these meet ings who are not in the habit of doing so The more that these reform ideas appeal to a certain class:of people that class is the hard est to get at
 "Here is the poor fellow in the gutter. He is not here. Why? He is not intelligent. The very life has been ground out of him He is slave and is in his sphere. It would not do for him to get out of it.. Once the Democratic party proclaimed that they were in the only way that the Lord ordained, and therefore that everyone would eventually have to come to their way of thinking Didn't great many swallow this because it came from the minister of their church, the Democratic party? How astonshed some of those poor fellows would be to flee and gel away from the Lord Almighty himself!
 "A thought or two more on the 'sense and nonsense of the labor movement My friends, there has been lots of nonsense That is the reason why the labor movement has not progressed. I allude for one thing to the trades unions. am opposed to unions although I was always a member They are banded together for the purpose o raising wages. The members work with their right hand for that Election day they come to the polls and with their left hanc deposit ballot that says: I am in favor o the principles that we are fighting They say politics have nothing to do with it. Thii new party has nothing to do with strikes. I is political organization.
 'fHere is man getting $2 day. Sup pose that it has taken $1.50 of this $2 tc
 pay for fuel, food, etc., and 50 cents fo the government. If the wages are advanced then, 25 per cent, do you know of anything to prevent the employer from raising tn price of articles and the various merchant and others from doing the same7 All tn trades unions care for is the wages. The, don't stop to think that if their wages are in creased 25 per cent. they will have to pay 2 per cent. more for their clothing than before
 and other things in proportion.
 sfBy the way, little book came into m, possession recently, giving the salaries of th government officials. If you could hav' seen it, and to think that the people are be I ing taxed, it would make the hair on m, 1 friends head there, although it is bald, stand on end.
 "When you get an increase of salar. which you have fought for, everything in th ! market is liable to go up. Is there anything | to prevent the political offceholders iron raising their salaries also3
 ''Is there any wonder that the pc ople have not advanced with wages? There is wher l the nonsense comes in with the trades unions | So long as you work with your right han' | to keep up wages and with the left to keel I the monopolists in power, you are working | and getting nothing for it, and tn ! move is going, going, going, and pretty sool
 witk magnificent platform. It is going, and il
 many cases has gone. Why Because they pretended to educate the people and they hat no catechism or library to do it with. Thei constitution says it is not political organi
 zation, but more. Everything asked fo must be got through the law and politics Yet the Knights of Labor say it is not { political organization.
 ''The only way we can accomplish ou object is through organization and the ballo box.
 People Hooked by the thousands into th Knights of Labor organization. Ther seemed to be something magnetic about it
 Most,all of these thought they did not hav to do anything themselves-only to reap tn reward of someone elses work. On election day they would vote directly opposite t. what they were striving for.
 ssI see no hope in any other organization but this. You can have your wages raised but with the politicians having their hand in your pocket what better off are you? La
 bor pays for their doings. We must work for a condition of economy, where labor vii
 be free and can exercise it's rights. w. must vote against the monopolists. I be lieve the Henry George land and labor doc Urine is the first to right it. We all know that without land we cannot live. The fooG we eat, the clothes we wear, and everything comes from the land. We are part O. the land. Consequently the land question is the first to be settled. The workingmeI create all the wealth of the world, yet the creator does not own any of it. Yet we cal ourselves proud American citizens.
 'The only way we are to be helped is through the law. The laws are made a Washington, and we must work through the ballot box to create 8 reform, which the United Labor party is now going to try to do
 'We are in an industrial prison. If we dC
 not like our employer we can leave. But il
 is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. We must not blame our employers
 They have their troubles. We can't blame
 anyone but ourselves. Those for whose in terests we are working stand in our way.